Beauty Bible Loves... Officine Universelle Buly 1803 Scottish Lichen Bath Salts
We invite you to lie back and think of… well, Scotland. Because these gorgeous bath salts, from the Parisian apothecary brand Buly 1803, are next best thing to a bracing walk through a mossy pine forest, soft needles underfoot. Indeed, as Buly 1803 put it, whisking us to ‘a landscape of Grimm’s tales with forests of pines or birches, red moors of ferns and heather, followed by extensive lands of emerald green sprinkled with dots of yellow wild broom.’
Quite a lyrical description, but they certainly deliver the perfect bathtime vibe, we reckon, for this season of golden leaves, misty mornings and chilly nights.
As bath salts go, Scottish Lichen Bath Salts are wonderfully bracing – a bold gust of green notes, with galbanum resin and clary sage blowing through, notes of ‘rain-soaked moss on the granite stones’, with fern, rosemary, caraway and tart rhubarb, and a sort of smoky undertone – patchouli and tonka – to warm the blend up, rather like a smouldering log fire.
There are other scents in this sea salt-based range – Peruvian Heliotrope (which has a sweet, powdery, vanilla-y scent), and Orange Blossom (which needs no description, from us, gorgeous, transporting white flower that it is). And fragrance is big, at Buly 1803; we love a snoop around their counter on the Ground Floor at Selfridges, sniffing this and that and making new discoveries, from body oils to soaps via fragrance (alongside all sorts of monogrammable items, grooming tools like tortoiseshell combs, home fragrance, skincare… even toothpaste!) Better still, we like a snoop around one of their stores in Paris – 100% recommended, if you’re headed there.
But for now, we’re enjoying the small pleasures of autumn. Hot water bottle? Tick. (Rather lovely.) Cocoa? Well, a mug of Green & Black’s hot choc (what else?) never goes amiss. Steamy, aromatic bath? Excuse us while we run those taps…
€32 for 500g – buy here
NB Note about availability… These are in store on the brand’s counter at Selfridges, but not on the website. And if you go to the Buly website to find them, unless your French is top notch, best to scroll down and find the button in the footer – literally bottom right on the page – that translates it into English. (Took us a while to figure that out!)
